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Anita Chan, China’s Workers under Assault. The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy

Anita Chan’s book is a reworking in greater depth of the studies that she has published over the last few years, on the exploitation suffered…

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He Qing, Images du Silence: Pensée et art chinois

As his biographical note on the back cover states, He Qing’s works fall into the present-day problematic of cultural resistance to the “sham universalism” imposed…

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Li Cheng, China’s Leaders

So who will govern China in the twenty-first century? For several years now, political analysts have been fascinated by the study of the Party elite,…

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Ian G. Cook and Geoffrey Murray, China’s Third Revolution. Tensions in the Transition to Post-Communism

This book belongs in the increasingly widespread category of works which inform the foreign public about things Chinese, but which add nothing in terms of…

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Robert Heuser, Einführung in die chinesische Rechtskultur

In his new book, Robert Heuser, Professor of “Chinese legal culture” at Cologne University in Germany, intends from a perspective that is both historical and…

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Xing Ziling, Mao Zedong quanzhuan

This substantial (over 2,000 pages), four-volume book by Xing Ziling, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, a former soldier in the People’s Liberation Army,…

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Steve Smith, A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai. 1920-1927

This is a very attractive volume with its 226 pages of text, and 315 pages overall. It includes two indices, one for proper names, and…

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Shih Shu-mei, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

In this remarkable work, one chapter of which has been published in French (1), Shih Shu-mei raises some fundamental questions: what, for Chinese intellectuals of…

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Henri Eyraud, Chine: La réforme autoritaire, Jiang Zemin et Zhu Rongji

At a time when attention is increasingly focused on the question of potential candidates to succeed Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji at the head of…

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Jan Michiel Otto, Maurice V. Polak, Chen Jianfu et Li Yuwen eds., Law Making in the People’s Republic of China

This work is the outcome of an international conference held in Leiden in October 1998 the object of which was to draw a picture of…

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